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Hospitality Distancing and COVID-19 Recovery

INSTO Observatories meet for informal exchange

The South Tyrolean Observatory for Sustainable Tourism has joined a virtual table with representatives of INSTO observatories from all over the world. Topics of the meeting were the role of the INSTO observatories during the COVID-19 recovery and the importance of public health measures for the destinations.

The Center for Advanced Studies and SIBE, the School of International Business and Entrepreneurship at Steinbeis University Stuttgart, look back on several successful collaborations. SIBE Managing Directors Werner Faix and Stephanie Kisgen recently visited South Tyrol, including the NOI Techpark.

Since Facebook has expanded its standard like-button to five additional response options, new possibilities for science to analyze images shared in social networks open up. A recently published study, in which also our Senior Researcher Anna Scuttari contributed significantly, shows the importance of emojis for visual communication research.

In the context of an innovative and interactive survey for the city of Bolzano we are looking for interviewers who will help us to motivate tourists visiting the city to install our research app.

Global and Local Dimensions of Migration

Anja Marcher speaks at international migration conference in Moscow

Strong relational linkages among actors in rural mountain communities may facilitate access to the labor market for asylum seekers. This is one result of a study conducted in 2017, which was presented at an international conference in Moscow​ dealing with global and local dimensions of migration.

Recently, the Center for Advanced Studies had the great pleasure to welcome a delegation of the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and representatives of the Indonesian Observatories, Toba-Lake, Pangandaran and Lombok to South Tyrol.

The role of EURAC Research. Which lessons for the macro-region Danube?

Harald Pechlaner, Head of the Center for Advanced Studies and Co-Head Roland Benedikter recently contributed to the 10th Danube Academies Conference in Prague, focusing on the importance of cross-border scientific cooperation.

Anna Scuttari and Andreas Dibiasi talk about trail accessibility and the South Tyrolean observatory.

More than 100 experts and stakeholders from all around the world recently met at the Global INSTO Meeting at the UNWTO headquarters in Madrid. 28 observatories had come to share their experiences in measuring sustainable tourism and to learn from each other.

Center for Advanced Studies meets IHS Vienna

Anja Marcher joined the IHS as Junior Fellow

Harald Pechlaner and Anja Marcher recently visited the Institute for Advanced Studies (Institut für Höhere Studien – IHS) in Vienna, a very prestigious research facility in the Austrian research landscape founded in 1963 by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Oskar Morgenstern.

Center for Advanced Studies contributes to global-e journal with a new article series

Re-Globalization. The new frontiers of Globalism

Roland Benedikter and Ingrid Kofler are the editors of the new article series "Re-Globalization. The new frontiers of Globalism" in global-e, a global studies journal edited at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Harald Pechlaner talks about smart city developments and participatory design in St. Petersburg

“The development of smart cities and participatory design: a contradiction or opportunity?”: With this lecture Harald Pechlaner participated in the IV International Scientific Forum “Public Administration. The role of citizens in digital state building” in St. Petersburg.

Escaping from the event?

A new perspective on Christmas markets in Northern Italy

In a research project on Christmas markets in South Tyrol with a special focus on the case of Merano-Meran, our researchers Anja Marcher, Greta Erschbamer and the head of center, Harald Pechlaner, explored the change of Christmas markets on a global and a local level.

Ingrid Kofler as visiting researcher at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics

Ingrid Kofler, Senior Researcher at the Center, recently visited the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) and seized the opportunity to talk with HWWI’s head Henning Vöpel and his team to find starting points for a further cooperation.

Leading feminist researchers meet for community economies exchange

Bianca Elzenbaumer, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research, recently hosted a community economies exchange in the Terragnolo Valley in Trentino.

Prof. Monika Bachinger from the University of Applied Forest Sciences Rottenburg recently visited the Center for Advanced Studies to hold a seminar with the title: "Entrepreneurial Ecosytems: A Critique from (Ecological) System Perspective"

Elena Alekseenkova at the Center for Advanced Studies

The Center for Advanced Studies has recently had the pleasure to welcome Elena Alekseenkova, PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in Moscow.

Participation at the Tourist Research Center (TRC) Meeting in Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Harald Pechlaner and Anna Scuttari contributed with a speech on the role of facial action coding systems in the analysis of host-guests interactions.

Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara

During February 2019, Ingrid Kofler was a visiting researcher at the 21st Century Global Dynamics Initiative, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Participation in the International Workshop on Memory, Migration, and Identity in Graz, Austria

In January, Anja Marcher presented parts of her PhD thesis during the international workshop in Graz on “Transnational Processes of Memory, Migration, and Identity in Europe and beyond”.

Cooperation with Lomonosov Moscow State University

With a lecture on "Integrative Area Development Policy: The Case of South Tyrol", Center for Advanced Studies' Roland Benedikter in February 2019 started the Center's cooperation with the Faculty of Political Science of Lomonosov Moscow ​​State University.

Symposium “De-Lokalisierung”

Center for Advanced Studies’ head Harald Pechlaner participated together with Anja Marcher and Daria Habicher at the symposium “De-Lokalisierung” in Vienna, led by the “task force: Cultural Dynamics” (German: “ARGE Kulturelle Dynamiken”) of the Austrian Research Association (ÖFG – Österreichischen Forschungsgemeinschaft).

Contribution to OECD-ERSA Winter School 2019

In January CAS' Roland Benedikter took part as a speaker in the OECD-ERSA Winter School 2019 about "Spatial productivity for regional and local development". The school is organised by the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development in cooperation with the European Regional Science Association ERSA.

Center for Advanced Studies at the Gaidar Forum

On January 15-17, Center for Advanced Studies‘ Harald Pechlaner participated, on invitation by the festival‘s authorities, in the 2019 Gaidar Forum, the most important international economic forum of Russia branded „the Davos of Russia“.

International Symposium in Vietnam on the Nexus of Migration and Tourism

The symposium was co-organized and co-chaired by Bournemouth University (BU) with Vietnam National University (VNU), University of Social Science and Humanities in Hanoi, 20-21 September 2018. Researcher Anja Marcher from Eurac Research’s Center for Advanced Studies presented recent research on migration and tourism nexus in South Tyrol.

Cooperation with Budapest Andrassy University's PhD Program

On 6-7 December 2018, Center for Advanced Studies’ Harald Pechlaner and Roland Benedikter joined Andrassy University Budapest‘s, Hungary, Interdisciplinary PhD Program Colloquium 2018 to deliver lectures on „De-Localization. The Idea of Transnational Routes“ and „Dialogue in Polarized Open Societies“.

Contribution to bauhaus now

With an essay about "Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Intelligence", Center for Advanced Studies' Roland Benedikter contributed to bauhaus now, the official publication of the Bauhaus Association 2019.

In a contribution for the 4th International Conference on World Famous Mountains hosted by Leshan Normal University in Emei Shan City (Chengdu, China), researcher Greta Erschbamer from Eurac Research’s Center for Advanced Studies presented recent studies on sustainable development of tourism in mountain areas.

Eurac Research’s Center for Advanced Studies joined the annual meeting of the World Tourism Organization’s (UNWTO) International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories (INSTO) from 22nd to 23rd October 2018 in Madrid.

68th AIEST Conference in Treviso

The 68th conference of the international association of scientific experts in tourism (AIEST) was held from 26th August to 30th August 2018 in Treviso in Italy. Eurac Research’s Center for Advanced Studies joined the annual conference entitled “Co-creating tourism experiences: chances, frontiers and limitations”.

UNWTO 2nd World Conference on Smart Destinations

Eurac Research’s Center for Advanced Studies joined the World Tourism Organization’s (UNWT​O) 2nd World Conference on Smart Destinations in the Spanish city of Oviedo (25-27 June 2018).

Transformation Design

In a double contribution for the annual conference on the state and perspectives of international relations of the Diplomatic Academy of Russia in Moscow, Center for Advanced​ Studies Heads Harald Pechlaner and Roland Benedikter in May 2018 covered the emerging field of "Transformation Design".

The Perception of Globalisation: From Inequalities to Trumpism

What is the current state of globalisation, and where will the international order evolve to? Center for Advanced Studies Co-Head Roland Benedikter discusses the topic in PhD-Lectures for La Sapienza University Rome, the Willy Brandt Centre of Wroclaw University, European and Western governments and the civil society.

Roland Benedikter discusses Rights in A Post-Human World at the Cato Institute Washington D.C.

With his lead essay in the April 2018 Cato Institute’s renowned journal Cato Unbound and a following dialogue contribution, Center for Advanced Studies Co-Head Roland Benedikter has opened up the debate on rights for robots.